President Kagame wondered why Uganda was giving priority to developing an SGR connection to South Sudan, which is yet to become an EAC member, at the expense of Kigali, which has all along been proactive in promoting the regional project.

“The thinking was that in both economic and financial terms, because of the challenging terrain south of Bihanga and distance to Mirama hills, Uganda would be required to shoulder a bigger financial burden than Rwanda to develop this connection and yet at the end of the day we would have to share Rwanda bound traffic with Tanzania,” said an official familiar with the deal.
Link http://www.theeastafrica...4/-/h70khiz/-/index.html

tz is worse when it comes to port delays, traffic jams and general efficiency, actually its faster to ship stuff through kenya to rwanda than via tz despite the latter being a shorter distance.
what kills kenya is politics, we politic 24/7, add to that the tribal tension and our neighbors are getting tired of us.

[quote=Jitahidi]President Kagame wondered why Uganda was giving priority to developing an SGR connection to South Sudan, which is yet to become an EAC member, at the expense of Kigali, which has all along been proactive in promoting the regional project.

“The thinking was that in both economic and financial terms, because of the challenging terrain south of Bihanga and distance to Mirama hills, Uganda would be required to shoulder a bigger financial burden than Rwanda to develop this connection and yet at the end of the day we would have to share Rwanda bound traffic with Tanzania,” said an official familiar with the deal.
Link http://www.theeastafrica.../-/h70khiz/-/index.html[/quote]

Everyone other than @Jitahidi has turned this small bump into a grand pity party.

The truth is that UG has refused to prioritize the Railway line btn Kigali and Kampala, leaving Rwanda to huff and puff due to the snub. Off course here, we think its always about us.

I could be wrong but I think there is no railway line btn Rwanda and TZ? so why abandon a ready line to chase dreams.

Anyway, the SGR will be fully utilized serving Kenya (I read somewhere it will increase cargo capacity by only 30%), we don't even need Rwanda and UG cargo.

Ug and Rwanda will also still use the Mombasa port for the bulk of their goods coz Tanzanians are notoriously inefficient when it comes to service.

PS. Uhuru had better wake up and catch with Magufuli, I do believe Rwanda and Ug are just opting to work with a more committed business oriented leader. They will offcourse invite our back slapping happy go lucky leader for parties and inaugrations as usual.

perfect, I think we, me included are just being typical kenyans, selfish to the core, after-all we are used to the eating mentality if I cant have it then no one should, and when I get it then only I should benefit.

Totally agree, a well developed and properly linked region will do good to all, actually if the 2 sgr are linked and results in me traveling from Nairobi to Dar to Kigali via Kampala and finish up in Mombasa in couple of days would be great.

In past years, Tanzania's infrastructure was so bad that choosing between the two countries was a no brainer regardless of the distance. The perception now is that Tanzania are solving their problems and thus have a better future. So if you are making a major long term capital investment, Tanzania is a better bet.

Kenya on the other hand is still mired self inflicted problems like corruption, insecurity, traffic, tribal tension etc. All these are driven by our tribal voting. As Kenyans we have decided not to hold elected leaders accountable for anything. So these elected leaders are not inclined to solve real problems. Their job is to build and maintain tribal blocs. Thus the perception amongst potential investors is that Tanzania and Ethiopia are the wave of the future and Kenya will soon be old news.

Instead of engaging in an honest discussion on why Tanzania is catching up with Kenya on issues like tourism, infrastructure, industrial output etc, the tribal sycophants have chosen to blame everything on their favourite boogeyman.

Nasikia hii SGR ni kama hii ninino ingine wanapanua kidogo tuu!

a mostly junk article from jaindi which is sad since he is considered one of kenya's better journalists. for example,

"In terms of the volumes of traded goods on the Northern Corridor, Rwanda represents only 8 per cent compared to 39 per cent for Uganda."

since when was rwanda responsible for 8% of cargo through the northern corridor? and uganda 39%? rwanda would be lucky to surpass 1%.

"We decided to experiment with an experienced private international port operator working at very high standards of efficiency. However, tenderpreneurs scuttled everything, the upshot of which was that we have now handed the facility to the Kenya Ports Authority."

for several years now the container port at dar es salaam is run by hph, possibly the largest port operator on the planet. they dont come more international than that. yet dar is still less efficient than the kpa-operated mombasa. africans have such an inferiority complex even on mundane stuff we can easily do ourselves. instead, we are hyper-excited to have some third-rate mzungu running it just so we can show we have now gone international lol.

but in honesty is there a 'best/better journalist in kenya'

Yes, thats the plan, transport cargo by ship to Rwanda since M7 is not committed to build his section of the Rail